Seldom visited trigs

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Originally Posted by Mark Smith

I grew up here, this trig being behind my house, 5 yards from my back fence. Sad to see a recent visitor has found it toppled. Not a lovely spot by any means, but a seldom visited trig for sure. You get a view south towards nottingham but it's a hill that has been subsumed by an estate and would have had a good view in its day. Quite sad now looking at this http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1205299

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It is very sad looking, very wrong too!

Great to see all the other trig points in seemingly now odd locations:D.

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Originally Posted by Stolly

I found this one last June

http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/2589/p6230036.jpg

Not far from Sidmouth and, from the track through the woods to it, it wasn't much visited that I could see. Mind you, what do 'suvveners' know about trig points :)

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Love that!

This is what Meugher looked like this time last year...

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5205/5...497117e020.jpg

In summer all that windblown fell is carpeted in Harestail Cottongrass tussocks. Certainly seldon visited i think, dispite being in the National Park.

Went to the trig at Mark Hill at the weekend via Stony Grooves Lead Mine. It was quite a stiff nav challenge having to walk in a dead straight line for nearly 2 miles, and my course was in error due to the deviation between grid and magnetic north.

It really is in the middle of nowhere...
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7123/6...17f17eb0_z.jpg

There are some lovely ruined structures and buildings at Stony Grooves...
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7269/6...457069eb_z.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7039/7...5627c967_z.jpg

Bagged Burton Fell today. It was a bit of a battle accross the firing range- boggy, desolate- it was a non live-firing day so i'm still alive. I didn't manage to find any unexploded ordnance unfortunately, but i did find Tarn House which i haven't seen for 20yrs, and some army stuff on the fell top. It was snowing and the terrain was tough, it took me 3 hours to go 7.5m.

Tarn House, a large ruined farmstead
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8008/7...434a146c_z.jpg

Engraved stone pillar
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7271/7...def16041_z.jpg

Army stuff
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7243/7...f2732006_z.jpg

The trig had seen better days
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7188/7...852a6aa3_z.jpg

Visited this un-named trig on Yockenthwaite Moor today. Good route for a run out- totally pathless open fell, no heather just bogs and tussocks. Went up from Cray via Crook gill where there are some staggeringly beautiful and immense features.

Summit, with Buckden Pike behind
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7205/7...67a52d5b_z.jpg

Climbing out of Crook Gill to Chapel Moor scar on the horizon
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7208/7...995a4684_z.jpg

One of many falls in Crook Gill, the plunge pool was about 10 feet deep
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5276/7...a6a16f3e_z.jpg

A column of flowstone covered in moss
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7248/7...6cd47a59_z.jpg

That there is Middle Tongue trig. Until the last couple of years the fellsman route went right past it. I could see it not too far away as I rounded the top of Deepdale in this years fellsman. Yockenthwaite Moor had a load of visiting fellsmanners the weekend before last :)

Great pictures Mr B. Real wilderness stuff.

I've thought in the past, when looking at the YD map, that Meugher looks like a good place to run to.

I bet it is seldom visited.

Cannock chase Trig point race has one that is seldom seen but visited often if that makes any kind of sense. Its not even on the OS map but there is a bench mark on a concrete block sunk into the ground which is not easy to find for the uninitiated.

http://www.trigpointinguk.com/trigs/...ils.php?t=2038

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.sr...+-+Castle+Ring

No mention of the Isle of Man on that site? Can i smell a new hobby?